There is also the yet to be told story, and we will be returning to that, of the growth of the LA Galaxy from media feeding frenzy to a hardcore soccer club with knowledgeable fans, a phenomenon which those of us who don’t attend weekly could see in progress at the final.

We don’t yet know the next chapter in the Landon Donovan story.

Until we can think and write, here are those stories in Ali Gilmore’s pictures: